tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7588617399970288842.post7432579540467592115..comments2011-06-30T07:05:40.353-07:00Comments on The Road Has Always Led West: Capitalist National Treasureajdmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00360481296824672392noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7588617399970288842.post-71324535796316856492011-03-05T10:41:36.536-08:002011-03-05T10:41:36.536-08:00going to go ahead and blame the ancestors for this...going to go ahead and blame the ancestors for this one...<br /><br />also, andrew jackson. he's always a good one to blame.Zachnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7588617399970288842.post-48460896707583545042011-02-24T11:31:04.339-08:002011-02-24T11:31:04.339-08:00On the one hand, you could argue that the Native A...On the one hand, you could argue that the Native Americans have the right to keep a tiny piece of the enormous whole that was originally theirs and which was taken from them; $45 to see part of the Grand Canyon doesn't really compensate for the fact that they all live on tiny pieces of the worst land the US Government could offer. But as I've often opined, it makes no sense trying to compensate today for the general wrongs of the past - it only brings divisions and hatred from that past into the present. I agree that America has lost the ability to assign value to anything without reference to the dollar. (I mean this in both the capitalistic terms and the cultural narrowness of Americans that forces them to see everything in their own terms, i.e. not any other currency.) Even if you could have paid to see it, could you enjoy it the same way? I doubt it - it would have been one of those "well I better love it" moments.Erinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16924210252433414924noreply@blogger.com